Political correctness does not dictate how the FBI trains its counter-terror agents, bureau Director Robert Mueller said during a sometimes testy congressional hearing Wednesday.

A recent purge of FBI training documents came because some of the materials that were being used relied on inaccurate information or stereotypes linking Muslims to terrorism, Mueller told members of the House Judiciary Committee.

Several committee members raised concerns that the bureau was sacrificing national security for politically correct considerations, citing the overhaul of the counter-terror training curriculum as a source of particular worry.

Mueller provided few details as to what standards were used to determine which documents would be scrapped. He refused to identify the outside Islamic experts the bureau relied on to judge whether training materials accurately reflected Islamic beliefs and Muslim behaviors.

“I can say absolutely and with certainty that political correctness played no role in the efforts I undertook to make certain that we will give the best training to our personnel,” Mueller said.

“It does us no good to have personnel who are trained with inadequate materials or misguided materials. Political correctness had nothing to do with it,” he said.

Mueller’s assurances did not satisfy Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who repeatedly and unsuccessfully pressed for the identities of the outside experts and an explanation of how their backgrounds were vetted.

The FBI and other federal agencies such as the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security have long histories of dealing with groups and individuals with links to terror organizations in the name of community outreach, Gohmert said.

Last February, Mueller met with the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which was tied to the terror groups Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood in federal court documents, specifically to discuss progress on the training issue, Gohmert noted.

“They’ve got a track record of choosing the wrong people to embrace and help them in their outreach program,” Gohmert said of federal counter-terrorism officials. “We still don’t know who the subject matter experts are. We still don’t know exactly what material has been purged.”

The training issue erupted last September amid media reports that some presentations used by the FBI were deemed offensive or inaccurate, including one that asserted devout Muslims are more likely to commit acts of terror.

Mueller ordered a review of the FBI training documents to ensure they did not include material that was inaccurate, relied or stereotypes or was unclear. To set the standards for that review, Mueller appointed a five-member committee that included two bureau personnel and three outsiders – called subject matter experts or SMEs.

But so far the FBI refuses to say anything about the outside experts. On Wednesday, Mueller suggested to the committee that they are government employees from other agencies, describing them as “persons with substantial credentials,” who were enlisted to put together standards for what should be taught to FBI agents.

An FBI spokesman did not respond to attempts to clarify Mueller’s testimony after the hearing.

A total of 160,000 documents and about 1,000 training videos that have been used since the September 2001 terrorist attacks were reviewed by the FBI, Mueller said. Of those, 876 documents were removed after being found inappropriate, he said.

Those documents have been made available to members of Congress, along with explanations of why they were found to be objectionable, Mueller said. They have not been released publicly.

Regarding his meeting with ISNA’s president in February, Mueller said he meets frequently with Muslim-American groups as part of his community outreach efforts. The briefings he gave in February were not different than those given publicly to Congress or other organizations, he said.

Mark Flatten is a member of The Washington Examiner’s special reporting team.

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MUELLER should take up farming due to all the BULL SHIT HE SPREAD AT THE CONGRESSIONAL HEARING. He does just what
the head MUSLIM IN THE GREY HOUSE DICTATATES WITH RESPECT TO ISLAM BEING PEACE LOVING. Yes PEACE LOVING, a PIECE OF YOU AND ME. LOCK AND LOAD.

The Pentagon’s military commander is also refusing to identify the enemy:
(Toronto Star, May 12, 2012) Verbatim.

Pentagon course taught Islam is enemy

PAULlNE JELlNEK
AND ROBERT BURNS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON. A course for US military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists, and suggesting the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following World War II precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima or the Allied firebombing of Dresden.
The Pentagon suspended the course in late April when a student objected to the material. The FBI also changed some agent training last year after discovering that it, too, was critical of Islam.
The, teaching in the military course was counter to repeated assertions by US. Officials over the past decade that the US. is at war against Islamic extremists, not the religion itself.
“They hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you, Unless you submit,” the instructor, Army Lt.-Col. Matthew Dooley, said in a presentation last July for the course at Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.
The college, for professional military members, teaches mid-level officers and government civilians on subject’s related to planning and executing war.
Dooley also presumed, for the purposes of his theoretical war plan, that the Geneva Conventions that set standards of armed conflict are “no longer relevant”
He adds: “This would leave open the option once again of taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary (the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki being applicable…)”
His war plan suggests possible outcomes such as “Saudi Arabia threatened with starvation . . . Islam reduced to cult status” and the Instructor has been teaching that D.S. might eventually have to destroy Mecca, Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia “destroyed”
A copy of the presentation was obtained and posted online by Wired.com’s Danger Room blog, The college did not respond to The Associated Press’s requests for copies of the documents, but a Pentagon spokesman authenticated the documents. Dooley still works for the college, but is no longer teaching, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said.
Dooley refused to comment to the AP, saying “Can’t talk to you, sir:’ and hanging up when reached at his office Thursday.
A summary of Dooley’s military service record provided by the army shows he was commissioned as a second lieutenant upon graduation from the US. Military Academy at West Point in May 1994. He has served overseas tours in Germany, Bosnia, Kuwait and Iraq. He has numerous awards including a Bronze Star Medal.
In what he termed a model for a campaign to force a transformation of Islam, Dooley called for “a direct ideological and philosophical confrontation with Islam,” with the presumption that Islam is an ideology rather than just a religion He further asserted that Islam has already declared war on the West and the U.S. specifically.
The course on Islam was an elective taught since 2004 and not part of the required core curriculum. It was offered five times a year, with about 20 students each time, meaning roughly 800 students have taken the course over the years.
Though Dooley has been teaching at the college since August 2010, it was unclear when he took on that class, called ”Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism!’
The joint staff suspended the course after it had received a student complaint, and within days Dempsey ordered all service branches to review their training to ensure other courses do not use anti-Islamic material.
On Thursday, Dempsey said the material in the Norfolk course was counter to American “appreciation for religious freedom and cultural awareness.”
It was just totally objectionable, against our values, ‘and it wasn’t academically sound:’ Dempsey said when asked about the matter at a Pentagon news conference.
In a July 20n presentation, Dooley described his purpose as generating “dynamic discussion and thought,” while noting that his ideas and proposals are not official U.S. government policy and cannot be found in any current official Defense Department.

thanks for posting that- as everywhere in dhimmiland- all efforts to SQAUSH the truth about ISLAM and allow the imperialist, aggressive, totalitarian apartheid militiaristic system to hide behind the words (not deeds) of a religion, are proceeeding and succeeding. We are well down the rabbit hole now- anti fascists are branded fascist, war is peace, anyone not on board with the Orwellianisms is branded a racist or hater.
Eventhe military is forbidden to define the enemy, while the enmies have no problem with targeting ALL and any OF US not Muslims or not willing to submit as second class citizen under ISLAM-

The Neville Chamberlains, the Quislings- all forgotten now- that the cost of their refusal to look TRUTH in the face ended up costing a HUGE price- and these same type people are just marching us to the same or worse fate. USA had many pro-German fascists (BUNDISTS) back then too.But we had a PREZ that was not one of them and our military was not expected to tow the PC boat or work with one had tied behind them

I just watched the the stammering and stuttering “FBI dhimmi.”Let me ask you, – anyone right out, were there “training materials during WWI or WWII in how to deftly approach the enemy with care and compassion? Did the president, right after Pearl Harbour, call for Shinto representatives to talk at the white house as Bush did after 9/11? The Muddled East crises has only grown and spread. WWII was decisively won in 5 years. Its now been over 10 here with North America treating its own citizens as ‘dangerous’ and treating the enemy with kids gloves. Khader, the young terrorist will be brought to Canada (no doubt to a hero’s underground welcome), meanwhile, Canadian citizens are under threat of being disarmed with encroaching gun registry’s. Islam is the enemy. And so are enemy academics, foreign or domestic.

Un-be-bloody-lievable, isn’t it, how these Americans, who were attacked in 2011, by muslims; are actually going to the muslims to ASK them-the ENEMY-how Americans should react in the event they might have to investigate the said muslims!

As Melanie Phillips says, the World is indeed Upside Down; right is wrong, and wrong has become the new right. The Western world is heading quickly for disaster if this continues……and it is.

The present Canadian Govt. does NOT want Omar Khadr back in Canada, and most of us would like to see him tried for treason if he does return–and shot.

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Political correctness does not dictate how the FBI trains its counter-terror agents, bureau Director Robert Mueller said during a sometimes testy congressional hearing Wednesday.

The term political correctness is a smoke screen that the Socialists in the Democratic Party construed to hide behind and to use to oppress the opposition to their plan to bring the Muslim terrorists and their Muslim terrorist supporters into their voter base and their anti-Christian/Semitic agenda in the USA and in the world. Mueller is a one of the key Socialist players in this scheme who has to be removed in order to bring America back to a place of safety for the US troops, which Mueller shares in the guilt when one of his Muslim terrorist voters that he let into the US Army as part of their plan to gain their needed votes, murdered 13 and wounded 31 fellow US Army soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas.